Facebook users are seeing a new “View Shares” link beneath news feed stories by friends, Pages, and those they subscribe to. When clicked, it opens a popover window displaying who has reposted that story and any additional context they added. Users will only see shares visible to them, meaning any post published publicly or by one of their friends.
via “View Shares” Link Shows Who Has Reposted Any Facebook News Feed Story.
A brand that embraces feedback — both positive and negative will be seen as open and receptive to its customer base. By acknowledging your imperfections in a transparent and authentic manner, you will find that you have an opportunity to convert some of your most negative critics into your strongest brand advocates.
Look at these examples of how to turn negative feedback into positive spin:
via How to use negative feedback to benefit your brand – iMediaConnection.com.
Specifically, Google has added support for +snippets in Maps. +Snippets, which rolled out in August, adds a link, description and thumbnail to whatever webpage you want to share to Google+. When you click on the “Share” button on the black Google+ bar, the share will be populated with a description and image.
As the last year has been one of the most dynamic years of fans increase for many pages, Socialbakers looked at those with the most substantial growth rate. Some of the pages were launched recently, which speaks for their almost immediate jump. In order to give complete picture, we analyzed the pages based on their countries of origin.
Google debuted its long awaited flight search Tuesday, achieving Concorde-like speed in returning airfares to would-be flyers.
The new search, powered by the data and algorithms it got when it bought ITA Software for $700 million in April, can be found directly at Google.com/flights, or in its usual results when a user types in a query such as “flights from lax to atl.”
Rarely do people get jail time for posting remarks on the Internet. It’s the Internet — it’s only virtual, right? Not for Sean Duffy, who after “trolling” the remembrance pages of several dead teenagers has been in jail for 18 months and is banned from using social networks for five years.
via Man who ‘trolled’ dead girl’s remembrance pages gets jail time | DVICE.
Well, as it turns out, lots of people are actively working towards the dream of expanding the one-way street of time into a multi-lane superhighway! Of course, many of these time pioneers are completely whackadoodle. But within the temporal engineering profession, you can also find accomplished researchers pursuing serious, science-based approaches to time travel.
Yesterday, we looked at various time travel theories inspired by science fiction. Here, we highlight three of these proposed methods of temporal manipulation that aren’t only attracting serious consideration, but might be available sooner than you think.
via 3 science-based approaches to time travel that aren’t crazy | DVICE.
Intel’s ultrabooks will soon be sporting a new chipset called Haswell. The Haswell CPU will have a 22 nanometer 3D architecture, the upshot of which is that it’ll consume twenty times less power than current chips. Yes, that’s twenty times less. That picture up there is showing a Haswell CPU humming along, powered exclusively by that itty bitty solar panel. Park the thing under the sun (or a lightbulb) and it’ll happily crunch numbers for you until the sun explodes.
via Intel’s new laptop chipset can run forever on solar power | DVICE.
Facebook today officially launches several improvements to its Friend Lists feature that can be used to define privacy settings and filter the news feed, including some changes that leaked last week. As we covered in depth then, users now have automatically created, populated and updated Smart Lists of their family, co-workers, classmates, and local friends. Additionally, users can now add friends to an “Acquaintances” list whose members will appear less frequently in the news feed, and a “Close Friends” list of people who will appear more frequently in news feed and whose updates will trigger notifications.
via Facebook Officially Launches Smart Lists, and Special Friend Lists That Influence the News Feed.
Facebook today launches the Subscribe button – an option for users to receive the publicly visible updates published by non-friends. Similar to Twitter, this asynchronous following capability will expand the types of relationships users can have on Facebook beyond friendship, allowing users to conveniently view content in news feed from people they don’t know but are interested in.
via Facebook’s New Subscribe Button Allows Asynchronous Following of Non-Friends’ Public Updates.